We’ve got a new display up in the library highlighting the fascinating diversity of wildlife in and around Shinnecock Bay. From underwater to the skies above, it’s a rich and diverse ecosystem that never ceases to amaze. The photographs in the display come courtesy of Chris Paparo. Chris is the
A.A. Milne (1882-1956) is an English author who is best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Deep in the Southampton Stacks, however, hides an example of Milne’s earlier work. Milne’s First Plays was published in 1919, a transitional period of his life. He’d begun putting the First World War behind
The Hotel, Elizabeth Bowen There are many literary classics nestled in the Southampton stacks awaiting the attention of a devoted reader. Tomes from Poe, Melville, Dickinson, Conrad lurk about, all of which we shall hopefully explore at a date currently unforeseen. For today belongs to Elizabeth Bowen. Her works, particularly
At our second Art in Focus lecture of the summer, Dr. Elliot Bostwick Davis took us on a journey that included cave paintings, petroglyphs, Arizona landscapes, sand art, the WPA, the Art Student League, and an apartment on East Sixty-First Street. These are all elements that swirled around the creation
We are gearing up for next Tuesday’s lecture on Jackson Pollock’s Mural for Peggy Guggenheim. If you’re unfamiliar with the back story, we luckily have reference books from the Pollock-Krasner Study Center collection at Southampton to help set the scene. Peggy Guggenheim had already established herself as a prominent
Nestled in the stacks of the SBU Southampton library sits a brown, nondescript book with faded, golden font. A crest on the cover of the book reads The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), and the spine of the book reveals the book’s authors, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley
The Art in Focus series got off to a great start on Tuesday night with Professor Katy Siegel, Thaw Chair in Modern American Art at Stony Brook University and Senior Programming and Research Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The subject was Jack Whitten, the noted abstract artist who
Sometimes pictures are worth more than words so here’s an overview of our therapy dog visit from last night. Many thanks to CAPS and the PALS program for coming out! [metaslider id=28078]
Please join us from 7:00-9:00 pm in the Southampton Library for a visit with the therapy dogs from the PALS program. This is always a great event and we hope it relieves some of the stress of the upcoming finals! Here’s a look at some past visits. We’ll post
On Wednesday, April 11, SBU Libraries teamed up with SBU Resident Life and SBU DoIT (Division of Information Technology) to host Evan Doubleday, lead programmer analyst on the Southampton campus, for an “ask anything” session that included questions ranging from technical issues to the sublime. Evan is mainly responsible for:
